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حافِلَة
bus /ˈħaːfila/
nounA2#1356 most common
Also: coach, motor coach
Example sentences
الحافِلةُ كبيرةٌ.
The bus is big.
أَذهَبُ إلى المدرسةِ بالحافِلةِ كلَّ يومٍ.
I go to school by bus every day.
تأخَّرَتِ الحافِلةُ عشرينَ دقيقةً هذا الصباح.
The bus was twenty minutes late this morning.
رَكِبْنا حافِلةً مكتظّةً بالرُّكّابِ في ساعةِ الذُّروة.
We boarded a bus packed with passengers at rush hour.
تُوفِّرُ البلديةُ حافِلاتٍ كهربائيةً للحَدِّ من التلوّثِ في وسطِ المدينة.
The municipality provides electric buses to cut pollution in the city center.
لولا أنَّ الحافِلةَ الأخيرةَ قد فاتَتْني لَما اضطُرِرْتُ إلى المبيتِ في الفندق.
Had I not missed the last bus, I would not have had to spend the night at the hotel.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حافِلةٌ | حافِلاتٌ |
| Genitive | حافِلةٍ | حافِلاتٍ |
| Accusative | حافِلةً | حافِلاتٍ |
| Vocative | حافِلةُ | حافِلاتُ |
Word family
حافِلاتbuses (plural)
حَفَلَto be full, to teem
حَفْلةparty, celebration
مَحْفِلassembly, gathering place
حافِلfull, crowded, repleteEtymology
حافِلة comes from the Arabic root ح-ف-ل (ḥ-f-l), which means to gather, to fill, or to be crowded. It is the feminine active participle of the verb حَفَلَ, to teem or be full. Modern Arabic adopted the word as the standard term for a passenger bus, a vehicle full of people. It belongs to the same family as حَفْلة, a party or gathering.
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